brutally sincere…Better Help Anonymous… review of much better help i have actually been utilizing the service for a little over a year now and i believe i’ve utilized it long enough to understand what are the cons and pros so i’m going to walk you through all of those and after that give you my last ideas on whether or not i would recommend much better assistance and whether or not i think it’s the ideal service for you for those of you that don’t understand betterhelp is an online counseling platform that links individuals who are looking for counseling or treatment with psychological health experts it’s a pretty simple procedure to get going so initially you fill out an online questionnaire it asks you some questions that will much better help match you with a counselor or a therapist so after you fill out what i would call a pretty prolonged survey they ask you to develop an account and after that you established your payment preferences i’ll discuss this a little bit more later however there are scholarships that can lower the cost and then you can also change your choice on how often
you want to pay so if you pay weekly that’s the most pricey but you can likewise pay ahead of time and that will make the cost less expensive for you total and then based upon your answers to your concerns in the previously discussed survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to use the words therapist and counselor interchangeably throughout this video however that’s not always the case and i think that better assistance provides both types of mental health professionals so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your therapist you’re able to talk with them and you can set up a time to have your first official conference so it can either be through a video call through a regular call or through a chat or instant message i always do video calls however it is great to understand that all four alternatives 3 really to me however they state it’s four are offered and i know that’s absolutely great for some individuals who are possibly a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call because it makes them uncomfortable when the day of your session comes you can either log into the internet browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and then you await your counselor to join and they will link you to the session when they do a little bell ring and then you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your meeting during your first session you’re most likely going to have simply a be familiar with you type of session to find out why are you interested in treatment what things do you want to resolve what are your choices as somebody participating in therapy what are your therapists choices and what’s their style of treatment all of those things will most likely get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like deeper
sessions where you can discuss your issues and whatever it is that you wish to deal with and after that as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you paid for it or however you set it up with your counselor so with my counselor in particular i believe this does differ by therapist however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually spent for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s carry on to the pros and the cons of the platform i believe one of the greatest pros of much better aid is that it is an online counseling service which makes it very practical and very available for the majority of people as long as you have an internet connection you can pick a variety of various ways to meet with your therapist so you can do text video calls or telephone call they send you tips about your visit so it’s pretty tough to forget when you have a time set up they send you both email tips and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool aspect of them having a digital platform is that they provide digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are readily available to anyone who uses betterhelp totally free of charge it’s at no extra expense to what you currently spend for your weekly sessions with your counselor now that being stated in my opinion the platform and the app is not very good in fact it sort of sucks especially thinking about that much better help in and of itself is a tool the product that they’re offering is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i indicate i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re offering is the tool and it’s not a very good one it’s quite clunky there are no alternatives for screen sharing Better Help Anonymous
or messaging or talking during a session images are shared very strangely they’re shared as files and you can only send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse choose the picture then put it in and then the individual can’t see a sneak peek of the image they have to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you push enter in the chat window your messages don’t send it actually produces a line break so